Leadership

This news channel page highlights examples of leadership in hospital and health systems. While healthcare leadership is often seen as the positions of chief executive officers, chief clinical officers, chief of staff, and chief information officers, it also can can be other individuals or the entire healthcare system that shows unique ways to enhance patient care and manage strategies, quality, safety and revenue initiatives.

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Female authorship in academic radiology journals on the rise, but losing momentum

The number of female radiologists publishing articles in academic journals jumped significantly from 1970 to 2000, but that trend has slowed down in recent years, according to a new study published in Academic Radiology.

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RBMA membership to learn from and celebrate 50 years of success

Numerous past presidents of the Radiology Business Management Association will be on hand when RBMA members gather April 5 to 8 in San Diego. The event is the group’s 2018 PaRADigm conference. The current leadership is bringing in a presidential lineup spanning five decades to showcase how far the organization has come—and to underscore how vital its work remains—half a century after it was founded.

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Battling burnout: 3 ways to improve radiology residents’ sense of personal accomplishment

In this modern era of quality over quantity, reducing the causes of burnout is one of the most effective ways imaging leaders can ensure patients receive the best care possible. For a new study published in Academic Radiology, researchers surveyed a group of radiology residents to better understand their sense of personal accomplishment (PA) and learn how it could be improved.

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Q&A: Amy Patel on taking ‘diversity in radiology’ from airy catchphrase to concrete action

The first female chief resident in an all-male program shares her thoughts on how far women have come in radiology and how far they still have to go.

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The changing faces of mentoring

If you aren’t enhancing a young rad’s raw talent right now—and figuring diversity into radiology’s future—you’re hurting your practice’s long-term outlook.

Michigan State suspends radiology chair in wake of Larry Nassar scandal

Michigan State University (MSU) has suspended its chair of radiology as it continues to deal with the aftermath of former MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar being sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for criminal sexual conduct.

Women’s Golf Day founder discusses her fight against breast cancer

Elisa Gaudet, a well-known golf writer and founder of the annual Women’s Golf Day initiative, is using her public platform to raise breast cancer awareness.

3 key statistics about gender disparity in radiology around the world

In recent years, significant progress has been made throughout the United States in the representation of women in healthcare. Radiology, however, remains one of the few medical specialties still dominated by men—a 2016 report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, for example, found that 24.7 percent of active radiologists in the country are female. To dive deeper into this gender gap, researchers studied the radiology workforce all over the world, publishing their findings in Academic Radiology.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.